Chapter Summaries

The old chief recognized the cauldron’s process as the legendary divine fire refining the heavenly body and realized Di Yi might be an exceptional warrior who relied on physical strength alone. Inside the cauldron, Di Yi endured the refinement comfortably and unknowingly reached the blood moving realm land, the first stage of cultivation.

• The old chief identified the cauldron’s phenomena as divine fire refining the heavenly body, a legendary path to an innate body through physical training.
• The old chief explained that the ancient pill formulas described the process as a theoretical conjecture, and the villagers debated whether Di Yi could truly embody it.
• Shi Yunshan recalled that Di Yi had never used runes or treasured techniques, prompting the old chief to consider securing Stone Village’s ties to him.
• Di Yi let the beastlike manifestations of blood and viscera attack him, while the cauldron’s sacred liquid and celestial light continued refining his body.
• Di Yi’s flesh and blood formed mysterious patterns that nourished him, and he unknowingly entered the blood moving realm land.

Di Yi’s tempering in the great black cauldron awakened his sea of consciousness and an ability to understand and reproduce precious techniques. As strange rain descended over Stone Village, Broken Willow stirred, while the villagers could not collect the rainwater.

• The great black cauldron rang as its glowing patterns and mist entered it, causing Di Yi’s divine radiance to grow stronger.
• Di Yi’s sea of consciousness formed, and he realized his strength had increased and some hidden ailments had faded.
• Di Yi’s sea of potential manifested Barbarian Bull’s and Yayu’s precious techniques, then began to understand the great black cauldron.
• Thunderclouds gathered over Stone Village and poured down unusual rain that fueled the flames and was absorbed by the cauldron.
• Broken Willow stirred and drew in the rainwater, while the old chief urged the villagers to collect what remained, but it vanished from their containers.

Di Yi rebuilt his depleted Sea of Potential inside the great black cauldron, gaining a new source of power and beginning to heal his ailments. As he absorbed the medicinal bath’s essence, the cauldron erupted and exploded before the Stone Village villagers.

• Di Yi used true understanding to reshape his empty Sea of Potential, forming mountains, rivers, stars, and other features within it.
• A pattern opened between Di Yi’s brows, and the Sea of Potential transformed as lightning and divine light filled the cauldron.
• Di Yi gained a new source of power, found that he could wield treasured arts and runes, and sensed his hidden ailments slowly repairing.
• Di Yi absorbed the creature’s blood and the essence of its internal organs from the medicinal bath.
• The old chief and villagers saw the cauldron shake and distort the space around it, then watched it leap into the air and explode.

Di Yi emerged from the great black cauldron after completing the medicinal bath and discovered that he had entered the blood moving realm. After learning about cultivation and deciding to travel beyond the Great Wilderness, he agreed to take some of Stone Village’s young people with him.

• The Golden Hou carried Stone Village’s people away from the erupting cauldron, which later crashed into a crater at the village entrance.
• Di Yi came out of the cauldron glowing with Divine Radiance, and the old patriarch confirmed that he had become a blood moving realm cultivator.
• Di Yi asked the old patriarch about the blood moving realm, later cultivation, and Bone Scriptures, learning that Stone Village had no specific cultivation methods.
• Di Yi told the old patriarch he planned to travel beyond the Great Wilderness, though he would not leave immediately.
• The old patriarch asked Di Yi to take some of Stone Village’s young people with him, and Di Yi agreed to help if they faced mortal danger.

Di Yi left Stone Village with a dozen young villagers, including Shi Yunfeng, to lead them beyond the Great Wilderness. The Golden Hou insisted on following, and the group continued into the mountains with it as their mount for the long journey ahead.

• Di Yi decided he had learned all he could in Stone Village and prepared to leave the Great Wilderness with the village's young people.
• The old chief brought more than a dozen youths, including Shi Yunfeng, to meet Di Yi, and they set out after saying farewell to Stone Village.
• The Golden Hou followed Di Yi, refused to return to the village, and Di Yi allowed it to join them.
• Di Yi led the group beyond Stone Village's hunting grounds and onward through the mountains, deciding they no longer needed to catch Unicorns for mounts.

Di Yi led Shi Yunfeng and the Stone Village group through the Great Wilderness, where they witnessed its dangers and learned a technique for escaping through the void from a pursuing Mottled Tiger. After the Mottled Tiger finally fled, the group continued onward, still relying on Di Yi and the Golden Hou to survive the journey.

• An enormous underground creature split the mountains as it emerged, but the Golden Hou roared and drove it away.
• Shi Yunfeng and the others steeled themselves to continue after seeing how dangerous the Great Wilderness was.
• Shi Yunfeng told Di Yi that the Mottled Tiger had resumed its pursuit, and Di Yi encouraged the group to keep studying its void-tearing technique.
• The Golden Hou fought the Mottled Tiger until it fled through the void, while Shi Yunfeng and the others confirmed they had learned most of its precious technique.
• Di Yi led the group onward through the Great Wilderness, where even the Golden Hou sometimes encountered creatures it could not defeat.

Di Yi led Shi Yunfeng and the others out of the Great Wilderness toward Cloud-Rushing Town on the Stone Kingdom's border. After merchants mistook the Golden Hou for an unusual dog, the group continued toward the town, where strangers from a prince or lord's residence were seeking rare beasts.

• Di Yi led Shi Yunfeng and the others through the Endless Mountains, where they mastered the Mottled Tiger's precious technique and neared the Western Frontier's border.
• Shi Yunfeng spoke with villagers and traveling merchants, learning that they had reached the Stone Kingdom's borderlands near Cloud-Rushing Town.
• The merchants warned that Cloud-Rushing Town faced attacks and that strangers from a prince or lord's residence were hunting rare beasts, including animals like the Golden Hou.
• When Di Yi suggested the Golden Hou was a Golden Hou, the merchants laughed and showed him a bamboo scroll depicting a different creature as a hou.
• Di Yi concluded that the Golden Hou's identity was less likely to cause trouble outside the Great Wilderness, and he led the group toward Cloud-Rushing Town.

Shi Yunfeng and the others arrived at Cloud-Rushing Town and parted from Di Yi, who left the Golden Hou at a care station. Meanwhile, Yu Qing and his companions learned of the Golden Hou and decided to seize it as a gift for a cherished jewel of their clan.

• Shi Yunfeng and the others reached Cloud-Rushing Town and marveled at its imposing walls.
• The city guards let Di Yi enter but required him to leave the Golden Hou at a designated care station.
• Di Yi parted from Shi Yunfeng and the others to explore the town and seek information about cultivation methods.
• Yu Qing berated the slightly plump middle-aged man for failing to find information about vicious beasts and Primordial Remnants.
• A second young man suggested finding a cute animal instead, and the middle-aged man reported that an unusual golden dog had arrived in town.
• Yu Qing and the others decided to take the Golden Hou as a gift, and Yu Qing ordered the middle-aged man to arrange it.

Di Yi learned about the Stone Kingdom’s many cultivation factions in Cloud-Rushing Town, then went to meet a wealthy man who wanted to buy the Golden Hou. When Di Yi refused and tried to leave with the Golden Hou, the man’s subordinates surrounded him.

• Di Yi asked a restaurant waiter about nearby cultivation academies and heard about the Martial Hall, End Point Academy, Xiao Academy, and many prominent factions farther inland.
• Town guards told Di Yi that an important man wanted to buy the Golden Hou, and Di Yi went to meet him.
• The slightly plump middle-aged man offered Di Yi fierce beast blood essence and his friendship in exchange for the Golden Hou.
• Di Yi rejected the offer and led the Golden Hou away, so the man ordered his subordinates to surround him.

Di Yi and the Golden Hou killed a Rain Clan retainer and his men after they tried to seize the Golden Hou. Yu Qing learned that Di Yi’s companions had gone to the Stone Kingdom’s Second Ancestral Land and planned to use the Rain Clan’s Treasure Tool and the city lord to capture Di Yi.

• The slightly plump middle-aged man ordered his men to attack Di Yi and take the Golden Hou.
• The Golden Hou killed the men at the front with lightning, and Di Yi killed the middle-aged man with a punch that shattered a hill.
• Di Yi and the Golden Hou left the scene as city guards arrived and sensed trouble ahead.
• Yu Qing learned that the dead man represented the Rain Clan and that the killer’s name was Di Yi.
• Yu Qing’s men reported that Di Yi’s companions had entered the Stone Kingdom’s Second Ancestral Land and might be linked to its lost First Ancestral Land.
• Yu Qing decided to enlist the city lord and use the Rain Clan’s Treasure Tool to capture Di Yi.

Di Yi continued toward the Central Giant City, but the Cloud-Rushing Town City Lord’s soldiers ambushed him over the death of a Rain Clan member. When they attacked despite Di Yi’s explanation, the Golden Hou wiped them out, leaving their fate clear.

• Di Yi decided to head for the Central Giant City to find routes and travelers who could help him reach the major academies.
• Yu Qing persuaded the City Lord to arrest Di Yi, claiming the Rain Clan deserved justice for a man Di Yi had killed.
• The City Lord’s commander confronted Di Yi and accused him of killing a man and fleeing, but dismissed Di Yi’s claim of self-defense.
• The commander ordered his troops to attack Di Yi, and the Golden Hou unleashed a burst of power that annihilated them.

The City Lord and Yu Qing framed Di Yi as a foreign spy and summoned Cloud-Rushing Town’s sacrificial spirit to support their attack. Di Yi and the Golden Hou resisted their powerful treasured arts, and Di Yi revealed a Fierce Bird art as the battle continued.

• After the Golden Hou wiped out the soldiers, the City Lord agreed with Yu Qing to portray Di Yi as a foreign spy and seek help from Cloud-Rushing Town’s sacrificial spirit.
• Cloud-Rushing Town’s sacrificial spirit received the City Lord’s message and sent a streak of crimson light toward them.
• The City Lord and Yu Qing’s group reached Di Yi and attacked him without warning.
• The City Lord empowered his Fierce Tiger art with bone beads, while Yu Qing and the others unleashed a rain-based treasured art against Di Yi and the Golden Hou.
• The Golden Hou countered the Fierce Tiger with lightning, and Di Yi manifested a Fierce Bird through a treasured art.

Di Yi and the Golden Hou overwhelmed the middle-aged City Lord and Yu Qing’s group, revealing Di Yi’s strength in the blood moving extreme realm. Di Yi ended the fight by killing the City Lord with one punch before the Rain Clan’s fighters could complete their array.

• The Golden Hou shattered the middle-aged City Lord’s Fierce Tiger technique with a thunderous attack, forcing him to rely on his Treasure Tool.
• Di Yi’s rain pierced Di Yi’s opponents’ bird manifestation, leading Yu Qing to conclude that Di Yi had reached the blood moving extreme realm.
• Yu Qing and the Rain Clan fighters decided to form an array and kill Di Yi rather than risk letting him live or reporting his identity to the clan.
• Di Yi realized his precious technique lacked power against opponents with higher cultivation and chose to end the battle directly.
• Di Yi reached the middle-aged City Lord and destroyed his Fierce Tiger and Bone Beads with one punch, killing him before Yu Qing’s group finished forming their array.

Di Yi and the Golden Hou defeated Yu Qing and the Rain Clan group after Di Yi used true understanding to study their Nine Heavens of the Rain Path. As they left the ruined mountain ridge, a crimson sword struck at Di Yi, and he turned toward Cloud-Rushing Town.

• Yu Qing and the others sacrificed their lives to unleash the Rain Clan’s Nine Heavens of the Rain Path against Di Yi.
• The Golden Hou’s thunder pool overwhelmed the first two heavens, while Di Yi studied the technique’s runes and understood its essence.
• The Golden Hou unleashed its full power, shattered the rain-curtain realm, and killed Yu Qing and the others with lightning.
• Di Yi lamented that the Golden Hou had ended the battle before he could study more of the technique, then said he could deduce its remaining runes.
• A crimson sword streaked toward Di Yi’s skull, but he intercepted it, then looked toward Cloud-Rushing Town.

Di Yi confronted Cloud-Rushing Town's Sacrificial Spirit, explained that false information had led to attacks on him, and continued traveling after the misunderstanding was resolved. Beyond the town, he and the Golden Hou encountered a great bird and a group that appeared to be hunting it, then moved on through the Great Wilderness.

• Cloud-Rushing Town's Sacrificial Spirit questioned Di Yi, who explained why people in the town had attacked him.
• Cloud-Rushing Town's Sacrificial Spirit accepted Di Yi's account, promised to resolve the matter, and withdrew its divine sense as Di Yi departed.
• Di Yi restrained the Golden Hou from attacking a peaceful great bird flying above them.
• Di Yi spotted people riding a giant feather and flying nearby, apparently pursuing the great bird, and guessed they might be after its eggs.
• Di Yi reflected that life beyond the Great Wilderness was not much different and continued onward with the Golden Hou.

Di Yi reached the mountains around the Heaven Mending Pavilion after a month of traveling and learning about the Stone Kingdom. He felt reassured by the Pavilion’s reputation and the kindness it showed local villagers as he continued toward it with the Golden Hou.

• Di Yi chose the Heaven Mending Pavilion and walked more than eight hundred thousand li to reach its mountain region.
• Di Yi saw disciples and visitors arriving on fierce beasts and spirit birds, including a dragon elephant, a Five-Colored Peacock, and a royal carriage from the Fire Kingdom.
• Passersby wondered why so many powerful clans and royal families had arrived at once, and Di Yi suspected a major event was drawing them together.
• Di Yi heard villagers praise the Heaven Mending Pavilion for letting them enjoy its spiritually rich lands and decided he had chosen a good place.

Di Yi reached the Heaven Mending Pavilion and tried to explain that he had come to join it, but the old man at the mountain gate doubted his claims. Di Yi finally said he had come to visit younger siblings, and the old man invited him to meet the children sent by the Fire Kingdom.

• Di Yi reached the Heaven Mending Pavilion's boundary and admired its vast stores of old medicinal plants and spirit plants.
• At the mountain gate, the old man warned Di Yi not to touch the plants and assumed he had come to support younger siblings.
• Di Yi said he wanted to join the Heaven Mending Pavilion, but the old man disbelieved him after seeing his strength and the Primordial Vermilion Bird Precious Technique.
• Di Yi insisted he was only in the Blood Moving Realm and was not from the Fire Kingdom, but the old man accused him of lacking integrity.
• Di Yi claimed he had come to visit younger siblings, and the old man offered to take him to see the promising children sent by the Fire Kingdom.
• Di Yi replied that the old man might be disappointed, prompting him to ask why.

Di Yi accompanied an elder to the Primordial Battlefield to watch the trials, where he revealed that he could see through the runic barrier hiding the candidates. His ability shocked the assembled clans and sects, while the elder began doubting his assumption that Di Yi was from the Fire Kingdom and related to its young prodigies.

• The elder explained that Di Yi's younger siblings were competing for places in the Ancient Sacred Academy, and Di Yi asked whether he could enter the academy or cultivate in the Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• The elder led Di Yi to the Primordial Battlefield, where representatives of powerful clans and sects waited outside the ongoing trials.
• Di Yi saw through the runic barrier and identified a Wood Clan genius and the Blazing Sun Marquis Estate's daughter fighting a flood dragon.
• The assembled observers were alarmed that Di Yi could see through a barrier made by the Sacrificial Spirit without using a Precious Technique or spiritual heavenly eye.
• Di Yi spotted a Fire Kingdom girl performing a Precious Technique, and the elder admitted he might have been wrong about Di Yi being from the Fire Kingdom or having younger siblings among the candidates.

Di Yi’s revelation that he knew the Primordial Vermilion Bird Precious Technique stirred the Fire Kingdom’s people, who considered recruiting him rather than confronting him. Huo Yun'e introduced herself to Di Yi and began asking about his connection to the Fire Kingdom.

• Di Yi told Elder Gu that his unusual strength came from being different, leaving the gathered clans and sects astonished.
• The Fire Kingdom’s people suspected Di Yi knew their exclusive Primordial Vermilion Bird Precious Technique and debated whether he might belong to their imperial family.
• Huo Yun'e decided the Fire Kingdom should win Di Yi over, and her younger brother teased her about seeming lovestruck.
• Elder Gu left to check on the third battlefield’s results after telling Di Yi he would return to discuss his admission to the Heaven Mending Pavilion.
• Huo Yun'e introduced herself to Di Yi, learned his name, and asked whether he and Elder Gu had misunderstood each other about his origins.

Di Yi rejected Huo Yun'e’s attempt to link him to the Fire Kingdom through the Precious Technique he learned in Stone Village, insisting the matter had nothing to do with him. As the trial at the Third Primordial Battlefield ended and the clans gathered to claim resources for the Ancient Sacred Academy, Huo Yun'e planned to keep trying to get close to him.

• Huo Yun'e suggested Di Yi might belong to a distant branch of the Fire Kingdom because he had learned its supreme Precious Technique, but Di Yi said he came from another world.
• Di Yi considered whether the technique came from Stone Village’s great black cauldron, then told Huo Yun'e that its possible connection to the Fire Kingdom had nothing to do with him.
• Huo Yun'e’s younger brother teased her about failing to win Di Yi over, and she said she had plenty of time to pursue him.
• The Third Primordial Battlefield trial ended, and Heaven Mending Pavilion elders praised the strong children who had earned places.
• The clans and great sects gathered to support their descendants and secure the best resources at the Ancient Sacred Academy, while Huo Yun'e told her brother she had a clever plan to approach Di Yi.